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Most hackers in the space start out at the freshman year or middle school age, my dude. Was the case 20 years ago.

it wasn't a brag or anything, i just don't know by what means i would've been introduced to that stuff other than game cheats. 15-year-old-me definitely did not care about crackmes or malware reversing.

i did start writing code in middle school, though. php, mostly :)

you sound like me, I was a little younger though ... aimbots, wallhacks, esp, textures, radar, it was all intriguing and I hated encountering cheaters in CS 1.4 and 1.5. I also began dabbling in writing bots around this time, as POD Bot was awesome!

php had also been a thing of mine, I spent many months in DALnet and EFnet #php. Primarily around the time of v3 prior to v4's big launch...

Did you end up releasing your bots?

Usually by the time you are in working age people have outgrown the e-ego waving contest to be incentivized to cheat in an inconsequential video game*

*with some exceptions.

you're on a website called "Hacker News", man. you think the startup game is less of an "e-ego waving contest"?

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